Madeira to limit passengers allowed to disembark on islands to 100 per week

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LISBON (Reuters) - Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, said it would limit the number of people allowed to enter its islands to 100 per week from Tuesday onwards, with freed up hotel space used to quarantine people with symptoms of coronavirus.

A total of 34 confirmed cases have been reported on Madeira, four islands off the northwest coast of Africa home to 270,000 people and usually visited by a million tourists each year.